Is hard fescue good for lawns?

This species is good as a non-mowed turf for slopes, median strips, and nonused areas of parks. In fact, where rainfall is not an issue, hard fescue is an excellent grass for soil protection and retention. However, it does not recover well from severe injury and is not tolerant of high summer temperatures.

Is hard fescue shade tolerant?

Hard fescue is another type of fine fescue that can be found in both shade and low-maintenance lawn seed mixes. Like the other fine fescues, it is shade and drought tolerant, and overall more heat, drought and disease tolerant.

Is hard fescue a fine fescue?

Hard fescue grass is the hardiest of the fine fescue species. It grows best in northern areas of the USA and usually at higher elevations. A full sun turf, hard fescue does have very good shade tolerance. It is also more drought tolerant than creeping red fescue and can be left un-mown.

How do you plant hard fescue grass seed?

Seeding Rate & Planting Time

1. New turf: Sow 4 – 5 pounds hard fescue grass seed per 1,000 square feet or 160 – 200 lbs/acre for broadcast seeding.
2. Over-seeding: Sow 2 – 2 1/2 pounds hard fescue grass seed per 1,000 square feet or 80 – 100 lbs per acre for broadcast over-seeding.

Can you mix fine fescue with tall fescue?

Turf-type tall fescues are often mixed with fine fescues for a finely textured, shade-tolerant lawn.

What is the difference between fine fescue and tall fescue?

Tall fescue is a broad-leaved fescue with wide, flat blades typical of lawn grasses. Fine fescue is the collective term for all fine-leaved fescue grasses. Fine fescue has thinner blades than tall fescue, with some fine fescues having needle-type blades.

How can you tell if fescue is hard?

Identifying tips A very fine-bladed grayish to dark-green grass. The leaves are folded in the bud, there are no auricles, and a membranous ligule is present. Hard fescue is a bunch grass with a semi-erect growth habit and heavy roots.

Is red fescue the same as tall fescue?

Creeping Red Fescue is a cool season grass used in the cooler temperate regions of the North. Chewings Fescue closely resembles Tall Fescue in that it grows very upright rather than creeping. It does, however, have the fine texture that is characeteristic of the fine fescue species.

Which is better tall fescue or fine fescue?

Turf-type tall fescues provide good density, color and the texture desired by many for a lawn grass. Rhizomatous tall fescues spread by short rhizomes and exhibit increased tillering for increased density. The fine fescues, with very slender leaves, adapt better to low light conditions, such as shade.

Can you mix tall and fine fescue?

Can I overseed with tall fescue?

The practice of overseeding lawns is primarily reserved for cool season bunch type grasses such as tall fescue, fine fescue, perennial and annual ryegrass and occasionally bluegrass. An exception is bermudagrass that is occasionally overseeded in the fall using a cool season variety.

Will tall fescue grass spread?

Unlike grasses that spread by horizontal above- and below-ground stems, tall fescue is a bunch-type grass. It grows in clumps and spreads primarily through vertical shoots called “tillers,” which grow from the base of the grass plant itself.